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As previously discussed, a new search engine called Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) is launched this week. Developed by former Google employees, Cuil claims to be better because it indexes more web pages – 120 billion versus 40 billion – and uses contextual searching to return more accurate results.  They also reckon that Cuil is more respectful…

I found a great new internet gadget last week: the Alexa toolbar. Alexa looks at site traffic for all sorts of companies, and shows how popular they are against a global index. For example, here are the most popular internet sites of all worldwide: 1. Yahoo2. Google3. YouTube4. Windows Live5. Microsoft Network6. MySpace7. Wikipedia8. Facebook9….

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Interesting to see that Techcrunch have questioned Google’s post of a trillion unique URLs indexed, saying it’s more like 40 billion.  That’s still a lot, but why would Google mislead us? Because a major new competitor is launched next week, according to Techcrunch’s view of the world.

Google blog about the fact that they’ve just exceeded indexing over 1 trillion unique URLs.  That’s 1,000,000,000,000.  That’s 1,000 times more than the billion pages they reached on their indexes in 2000, which was 400 times more than the 26 million pages they indexed way back in 1998. 1,000,000,000,000 unique web pages. What are they…

I’ve blogged lots about social networks, social media, Web 2.0, blogs, mobile banking, mobile payments, internet banking and more. My continual gripe has been: where is the Bank 2.0?  I’ve been talking about it, but I’ve never seen one. Today, I saw the first Bank 2.0.  It’s Spanish. It’s BBVA. Rather than repeating the description…

I’ve blogged lots about social networks, social media, Web 2.0, blogs, mobile banking, mobile payments, internet banking and more. My continual gripe has been: where is the Bank 2.0?  I’ve been talking about it, but I’ve never seen one. Today, I saw the first Bank 2.0.  It’s Spanish. It’s BBVA. Rather than repeating the description…

Great example here of social media websites that rock, according to mashable.com.   Of the 35 corporate websites chosen, including Blendtec (my favourite), Cisco, Coca-Cola, Dell, Ford, IBM, Marriott, McDonalds, the New York Times, Starbucks, Toyota and Xerox, three financial firms make the lists:   HSBC, for their UK Business Network; Visa, for their Facebook…